Resounding Landscape
Sun, 22 Nov
|St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
As part of the Soundscapes Abendmusik series. Presented by Galway 2020 and Music for Galway. In association with the Irish Baroque Orchestra. Resurgam The Irish Baroque Orchestra Peter Whelan, director.
Time & Location
22 Nov 2020, 17:00 – 18:15
St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, Lombard St, Galway, H91 PY20, Ireland
About the event
As part of the Soundscapes Abendmusik series
Presented by Galway 2020 and Music for Galway and in association with the Irish Baroque Orchestra.
Peter Whelan, director.
Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), Hail! Bright Cecilia
Rhona Clarke, O Vis Aeternitatis
This concert, part of Galway 2020 / Music for Galway Abendmusik series, serendipitously falls on the feast day of St. Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. Purcell's ode in honour of the Roman martyr sets a test by Irishman Nicholas Brady in which a wide array of msuical instruments are extolled both as human characters and voies of nature itself. Heaven and earth are brought together , and the "jarring seeds of matter" into agreement, in Purcell's grand choruses and intimate arias and duets. These themes are the inspiration for the programme's "curtain raiser": Rhona Clarke's new setting of Hildegarde's extraordinary O vis eternitatis, a celebration of the divinity of the created order.